As she spiraled into addiction, she wrote scripts without seeing patients and her office manager helped skirt regulations, according to charges.

Updated, Feb. 4:

Rita Harrison pleaded no contest to administration extortionate credit transactions of a controlled substance by a practitioner. Her other charges were withdrawn, according to online court documents.

She was sentenced 24 months probation, as well as completing a care program and drug and alcohol treatment.

Harrison also must pay costs, fines and fees.

Robin Bridgman's case was suspended in July 2018 because of her death, documents states.

Previously reported, February 2018:

An Adams County doctor was high on cocaine and other drugs when she treated patients, and she prescribed narcotics to patients without having seen them first, according to criminal charges filed Jan. 30 by the state Attorney General's Office.

The doctor's office manager also faces charges for allegedly helping the doctor provide those prescriptions to patients.

Rita Harrison, 60, of the 3700 block of Pine Grove, Biglerville, is a physician employed at Battlewound Healthcare in Adams County. She allegedly saw patients while on a controlled substance, pre-wrote blank prescriptions for patients without a doctor's visit and failed to go to the office when appointments were scheduled, according to an affidavit filed with District Judge Mark Beauchat.

Robin Bridgman, 55, of the 300 block of Bull Valley Road, Aspers, is the office manager at Battlewound Healthcare. She allegedly provided signed prescriptions to patients without Harrison present and would forge Harrison's signature on prescriptions for patients in some cases, the affidavit states.

On Aug. 16, 2016, one of Harrison's patients tried to pick up their prescription for Oxycodone at a pharmacy in Mount Holly Springs, Cumberland County, but the pharmacist informed the patient that the prescription was filled out incorrectly and would have to come back with the corrected prescription, investigators said in the affidavit.

The pharmacist had tried to make contact with Harrison, but found she had been on sabbatical since July. When the patient returned with an entirely new prescription, the pharmacist called police and informed them of the physician who was treating some of Harrison's patients, the affidavit states.

When police called Harrison's office they spoke to Bridgman who first said Harrison had stepped out of the office, but when pushed on the question she told police she was having phone issues and hung up.

Bridgman told police when they called back that Harrison was out of the office and not in the area.

On Nov. 20, 2016, a prescription supposedly written by Harrison was brought to be filled at a pharmacy in New Oxford for Oxycodone. When police spoke to the patient, the patient said that Bridgman provided the prescription, the affidavit states.

This patient had four prescriptions provided to her and all were picked up from Bridgman's home.

Investigator's received a search warrant for Bridgman's home where they found Battlewound Healthcare prescriptions, patient files, blank prescription pads, a blank prescription signed by Harrison and a blank prescription in the name of Katherine Himes, investigators said in the affidavit.

Bridgman told investigators that Harrison stopped seeing patients about a week before leaving Pennsylvania in July. She also said Harrison pre-signed about 100 blank prescriptions and that she would fill out the rest for patients when Harrison was away.

Two former employees of Battlewound Healthcare confirmed the information about the pre-signed prescriptions and that Harrison engaged in other unprofessional behavior, investigators said in the affidavit.

One of the former employees said that Harrison was aware that one of her patients was selling their pills, but Harrison continued to provide prescriptions for that patient.

Harrison and her husband played a voicemail from that patient in which the patient stated they, "needed to obtain a prescription from Dr. Harrison because he/she needed to pay his/her rent," investigators said in the affidavit.

The former employee told investigators that Harrison did discharge that patient, but later discovered Harrison was still writing prescriptions from her home for the patient.

Harrison also pre-wrote some prescriptions while she was hospitalized. A former employee said Harrison said she was hospitalized because her husband, John Snyder, was holding her hostage and had injected her with drugs, the affidavit states.

A former employee described Harrison during this time as "messed up" and she would be late to work or not show up at all. The former employee gave an example of when a cancer patient could not receive his pain medication because Harrison was "unavailable."

There were also times when that employee had suspected that Harrison came into the office under the influence of drugs, investigators said in the affidavit.

Harrison admitted to the former employee that she had been taking Klonopin, cocaine and Percocet. Also Harrison and her husband, Snyder, admitted that Snyder had been injecting Harrison with cocaine.

Another former employee noticed a difference in Harrison's behavior in 2015 when she began dating Snyder and treating his friends. In November of 2015, the former employee suspected that Harrison was using drugs, the affidavit states.

This former employee decided Harrison needed an intervention and during that meeting it was discovered by Bridgman that Harrison had a Fentanyl patch placed on her by Snyder. Harrison did see patients earlier that day, investigators said in the affidavit.

Also during the intervention, Harrison stated she was upset because she "lost three days of her life." She said she used cocaine on Friday and didn't know where she was or what Snyder had been doing.

Former patients of Harrison testified that when they began their treatments Harrison would give a full examination and talk about their treatment, but that procedure changed when Harrison married Snyder in October of 2015.

Sometimes a patient's prescription would be provided by Bridgman or placed in a box outside the office and they wouldn't even see Harrison, the affidavit states.

Another former patient testified that they saw Bridgman sign Harrison's name on some prescriptions and one time Bridgman went to meet with another patient of Harrison's to get their Suboxone to give to another patient who needed it, investigators said in the affidavit.

Harrison was charged with administration extortionate credit transactions of a controlled substance by a practitioner and manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, according to online court documents.

Bridgman was charged with manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver and acquisition or obtaining of possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, documents state.

Both were taken to Adams County Prison on Feb. 1 in lieu of $100,000 bail and have preliminary hearings scheduled for Feb. 7, documents state.

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